| 单词 | sheer |
| 释义 | sheer sheer1 —sheerly, adv. —sheerness, n. /shear/, adj., sheerer, sheerest, adv. , n. adj. 1. transparently thin; diaphanous, as some fabrics: sheer stockings. 2. unmixed with anything else: We drilled a hundred feet through sheer rock. 3. unqualified; utter: sheer nonsense. 4. extending down or up very steeply; almost completely vertical: a sheer descent of rock. 5. Brit. Obs. bright; shining. adv. 6. clear; completely; quite: ran sheer into the thick of battle. 7. perpendicularly; vertically; down or up very steeply. n. 8. a thin, diaphanous material, as chiffon or voile. [1175-1225; ME scere, shere, schere free, clear, bright, thin; prob. < ON skaerr; change of sk- > s(c)h- perh. by influence of the related OE scir (E dial. shire clear, pure, thin); c. G schier, ON skir, Goth skeirs clear; see SHINE] Syn. 2. mere, simple, pure, unadulterated. 3. absolute, downright. 4. abrupt, precipitous. 6. totally, entirely. Ant. 1. opaque. sheer2 /shear/, v.i. 1. to deviate from a course, as a ship; swerve. v.t. 2. to cause to sheer. 3. Shipbuilding. to give sheer to (a hull). n. 4. a deviation or divergence, as of a ship from its course; swerve. 5. Shipbuilding. the fore-and-aft upward curve of the hull of a vessel at the main deck or bulwarks. 6. Naut. the position in which a ship at anchor is placed to keep it clear of the anchor. [1620-30; special use of SHEER1; cf. sense development of CLEAR] |
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